Re: Why is help so hard to find?

["Jesús M. Navarro" <jesus.navarro@undominio.net>]

Hi, Ian:

On Monday 17 January 2011 13:32:33 Ian Jackson wrote:
> Don Armstrong writes ("Re: Why is help so hard to find?"):
> > A possible hack would be to have insserv ignore any initscripts which
> > are conffiles which when run without options exit with zero status.
>
> It could probably safely invoke them with:
>   /etc/init.d/obsolete --fail-please
>
> > But this probably has some ugly consequences which aren't totally
> > obvious to me right this second.
>
> Yes.  Surely the right thing to do at this stage of the release cycle
> is to tone down the extent to which we are pushing insserv, and to
> revisit this questions after the release.

To that extreme I proposed a change in the to the postinst message[1].  Don't 
sure if it will come across since the bug is already closed.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610185#24

Cheers.